GES releases 2010 Computerized School Selection and Placement for SHS

The Ghana Education Service (GES) on Friday released the 2010 Computerized School Selection and Placement (CSSP) for Senior High Schools (SHS).

Ms. Benedicta Naana Biney, Acting Director-General of GES, addressing a press conference in Accra said 172,359 candidates qualified for placement based on vacancies declared by the various heads of SHS nationwide.

However, 171,148 candidates, representing 98.8 per cent of the qualified candidates had been successfully placed leaving 1,211 students yet to be placed.

She explained that the unplaced candidates had various problems including the fact that schools they had chosen did not have boarding facilities to cater for candidates from other districts, while others could not meet the cut-off point of their six chosen schools.

Ms. Biney assured parents that the necessary arrangements were being made to ensure placements for all the candidates, and the GES expected all first year SHS students to be in school by October 15, to help facilitate the placement of the unplaced candidates.

She said all Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates could know their school placements by texting their index numbers followed by either 07, 08, 09 or 10 which represent their respective examination year to SMS Short Code 1060 to all mobile networks.

Ms. Biney said the supplementary placement for all qualified but unplaced candidates would be available by October 20, meanwhile, with effect from this year, the placement form would be accessed on the internet and each successful candidate was required to print out his or her placement form from the internet using a GES scratch card purchased at four Ghana cedis and presented to the SHS for admission.

However, she admitted that though the CSSPS had gone through several challenges over the past six years of its existence, strenuous efforts with support and collaboration of partners including the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS), Regional Directors of Education, Parents, Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNAPS), General Managers of Educational Units and Representatives from Private Tertiary Institutions, had resulted in eliminating major problems associated with the system.

Ms Biney said as part of efforts to enhance the system, stakeholders proposed for the adoption of a policy shift in the placement process, leading to the adoption of the CSSPS Policy Guidelines.

She said the 2010 CSSPS applied the policy guidelines for the selection based on four core subjects including English Language, Mathematics, Integrated Science and Social Studies and one other best elective subject of the candidate, making a total of five subjects.

“For Technical Institutes the subjects are English Language, Mathematics, Integrated Science, Basic Design and Technology and one other best elective subject”, she said.

Ms. Biney explained that the 2010 placement system in addition, used the total processed raw scores of five subjects instead of grades of each candidate for the selection and called on the media to facilitate the education of the public, by partnering with the GES in its week-long public education drive on the entire CSSPS system.

She appealed to parents to accept the placement system and cooperate with the GES in its effort to eliminate the stress that had characterised previous exercises, and urged them to address all concerns at the CSSPS Secretariat.

Source: GNA

9 Comments
  1. justice jeremiah mensah says

    you are talking about buying scratch cards to download placement forms on line but most of our children have tried with those cards that we bought but the system is telling us that our index numbers,scratch card numbers and pin codes are all wrong,how possible,something that were generated by you?please do something about it for time is running out.

  2. Ben says

    Please, i entered my index no to 1060 and found the school i get, but i went to check the list in the school i got, my name was not found. WHY?

  3. prince jude cobbinah says

    my daughter was initially placed in Kumasi Academy SHS, but when I went to print from the net, her placement had been changed to Bimbilla SHS in the Nunumba District in Northern Region when she in effect didi not choose that school.
    I hope this anomally will be rectified to enable my daughter go to school.
    Thank You

  4. stephen says

    so is it true we the freshers are going to school on the 15 /10/2010?

  5. Stephen Dortey Abladey says

    I was not placed why,I had aggregate 18

  6. Abladey Stephen Dortey says

    I HAD AGGREGRATE 18 AND I WAS NOT PLACED, MY PARENTS HAVE PROMISE NOT TO SEND ME TO ANY SCHOOL.SO HAS GOOD PEOPLE WANT PLACE ME IN THE FINAL LIST
    ANY SCHOOL IN GREATER ACCRA OR EASTERN REGION

  7. Sweet Omega says

    Cant we check our school through the net instend of texing?

  8. APPIAH PRINCE says

    PLEASE SIR I WANT KNOW WEATHER THE PLACEMENT OF SCHOOL FOR 2011 B.E.C.E CANDIDATES ARE IN

  9. Gyawuli Charles says

    You are really frustrating our kids this year. Have you ever ask yourself how many localities in Ghana have these internet facilities where our children can access these admission forms?. Please you must do something about these things next year because the first term of the 2011/2012 academic year is almost ending but our children are still in the house

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